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The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinar...

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Activities against the united states. this particular event happens to be out in the open. usually these are things that all happen behind the scenes. so when it comes to intelligence activities, these are all of the components that normally would be engaged, the intelligence community, the fbi, the defense department, particularly cyber come, which normally would be involved in activities that china is doing in terms of cyberspace. these are the agencies that normally would be part of the intel...

And putin looked away. you dont want to read too much or too little. public posturing, about how you project strength and that was a notable moment to me. >> harris: one person tweeted this. he looked away for a photo op. talking about putin. trying to make a case of strength by this action. what color is the sky in your world? another looking forward to your expert analysis why putin and bidens colors may mean. he said it was just a visual observation, not praising biden. >> i think that in fac...

Seen, you can get a deal signed, sealed and delivered, except when it comes to it, donald trump wont sign it. and so, why should they put something out and then have the rug pulled out from under them? and thats going to be the question for democrats. plus, the wall is really a stupid idea, and you just have to, lets deal with reality for a second. its really a dumb idea, and that ought to count, too. >> well, gwenda blair, you know how the president thinks and approaches situations like this, n...

Clinton issue. they wont let it go. most importantly, the reason this is an abuse and not strict oversight which is what they are claiming it is, these questions have been asked and answered. we have had the doj inspector general investigate how this was handle ld. we have a report. there are reports they are still investigating how this was handled. if this were true oversight, the house would be looking at the ig reports, they would be calling the ig in to get a read on what happened and where...

Only time american officials would talk about it is when they belly ached to the media but never did anything. here is the thing. president trump is very hopeful about this. what he said was a sort of public posturing. both sides have to do it. behind the scenes theyre moving rapidly toward some sort of deal. a major deal. overnight there was talk about china giving up $200 billion on the deficit. we dont know the time frame for that. pushback on that from china. i believe -- i think there is so...

The presidents sake were fighting for you boss, but in the end hes going to have to sit down, just as bill clinton had to sit down, and theyll take his testimony and the chips will fall wherever they fall. >> might this be strategy of just kind of public posturing? if we make it public they were asking for conditions and those conditions arent denied if he does not willingly testify, he can say, well, you know, we said under these conditions we would do it but theyre just not working with us? >>...

The attorney general does. one question we havent answered, particularly in light of what sean spicer is talking about in terms of the president wanting to protect the united states. i watched president obama and president bush meet regularly with the attorney general and fbi director at least once a week. those meetings are typically focused on conversations about terrorism investigations in the united states so the president knows the most significant investigati investigations and can ask a s...

>> that is a democratic president getting things done with a republican congress. this guy has a democratic senate and he cant get the bill through. >> he doesnt apply himself. he looks for political issues. i didnt say he was lazy he does public posturing and thinks he is doing something. >> no one puts the greater good first. >>gregg: he is addicted to the teleprompter. >> he should go see his idol "lincoln" where he would dig up dirt on congress and squeeze them. but he achieved the end throu...